CALL FOR PAPERS    
                Trends in Functional Programming 2007    
                           New York, USA    
                            April 2-4, 2007    
                        http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/   


The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum    
for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming languages,      
focusing on providing a broad view of current and future trends in Functional      
Programming. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest      
research results through acceptance by extended abstracts. A formal post-symposium    
refereeing process then selects the best articles presented at the symposium for
publication in a high-profile volume.      

TFP 2007 is co-hosted by Seton Hall University and The City College of New York (CCNY)    
and will be held in New York, USA, April 2-4, 2007 at the CCNY campus.  

The TFP symposium is the successor to the successful series of Scottish Functional    
Programming Workshops. Previous TFP symposia were held in Edinburgh, Scotland in
2003 (co-located with IFL), in Munich, Germany in 2004, in Tallinn, Estonia in 2005      
(co-located with ICFP and GPCE), and in Nottingham, UK in 2006      
(co-located with Types). For further general information about TFP please see the
TFP homepage at http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/ .    



                                SCOPE OF THE SYMPOSIUM    


The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various routes. As part  
of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify the following five article      
categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories:    


        Research Articles        leading-edge, previously unpublished research work
        Position Articles        on what new trends should or should not be    
        Project Articles        descriptions of recently started new projects    
        Evaluation Articles        what lessons can be drawn from a finished project    
        Overview Articles        summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject    


Articles must be original and not submitted for simultaneous publication to any other      
forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical,      
implementation-oriented, or more experience-oriented. Applications of functional      
programming techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium.    

Articles on the following subject areas are particularly welcomed:

    o Dependently Typed Functional Programming    
    o Validation and Verification of Functional Programs
    o Debugging for Functional Languages    
    o Functional Programming and Security    
    o Functional Programming and Mobility    
    o Functional Programming to Animate/Prototype/Implement Systems from Formal or Semi-Formal Specifications    
    o Functional Languages for Telecommunications Applications    
    o Functional Languages for Embedded Systems
    o Functional Programming Applied to Global Computing    
    o Functional GRIDs    
    o Functional Programming Ideas in Imperative or Object-Oriented Settings (and the converse)    
    o Interoperability with Imperative Programming Languages    
    o Novel Memory Management Techniques    
    o Parallel/Concurrent Functional Languages    
    o Program Transformation Techniques    
    o Empirical Performance Studies    
    o Abstract/Virtual Machines and Compilers for Functional Languages    
    o New Implementation Strategies
    o any new emerging trend in the functional programming area    

If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of TFP, please contact      
the TFP 2007 program chair, Marco T. Morazan, at tfp2007@shu.edu.



                                BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD    


TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students, acknowledging that
students are almost by definition part of new subject trends. A prize for the best  
student paper is awarded each year.



                                SUBMISSION AND DRAFT PROCEEDINGS    


Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on the review of  
extended abstracts (6 to 10 pages in length) by the program committee. Accepted      
abstracts are to be completed to full papers before the symposium for publication in      
the draft proceedings and on-line.  


The submission must clearly indicate to which category it belongs to: research, position,    
project, evaluation, or overview paper. It should also indicate whether the main author
or authors are research students. Formatting details can be found at the TFP 2007 website.    
Submission procedures will be posted on the TFP 2007 website as the submission deadline is    
reached.    

The papers in the draft proceedings will also be made available on-line under the following      
conditions, with which all authors are asked to agree:    

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                        POST-SYMPOSIUM REFEREEING AND PUBLICATION


In addition to the draft symposium proceedings, we intend to continue the TFP tradition of  
publishing a high-quality subset of contributions in the Intellect series on Trends in      
Functional Programming. All TFP authors will be invited to submit revised papers after the  
symposium. These will be refereed using normal conference standards and a subset of the best      
papers, over all categories, will be selected for publication. Papers will be judged on their    
contribution to the research area with appropriate criteria applied to each category of paper.    

Student papers will be given extra feedback by the Program Committee in order to assist those    
unfamiliar with the publication process.



                        IMPORTANT DATES    


        Abstract Submission: February 1, 2007    
        Notification of Acceptance: February 20, 2007    
        Registration Deadline: March 2, 2007    
        Camera Ready Full Paper Due: March 9, 2007    
        TFP Symposium: April 2-4, 2007    




                                PROGRAMME COMMITTEE    



        John Clements                California Polytechnic State University, USA    
        Marko van Eekelen                Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands    
        Benjamin Goldberg                New York University, USA    
        Kevin Hammond                University of St. Andrews, UK    
        Patricia Johann                Rutgers University, USA      
        Hans-Wolfgang Loidl        Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany    
        Rita Loogen                Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany    
        Greg Michaelson                Heriot-Watt University, UK    
        Marco T. Morazán (Chair)        Seton Hall University, USA    
        Henrik Nilsson                University of Nottingham, UK    
        Chris Okasaki                United States Military Academy at West Point, USA      
        Rex Page                        University of Oklahoma, USA    
        Ricardo Pena                Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain    
        Benjamin C. Pierce        University of Pennsylvania, USA    
        John Reppy                University of Chicago, USA    
        Ulrik P. Schultz                University of Southern Denmark, Denmark    
        Clara Segura                Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain    
        Jocelyn Sérot                Université Blaise Pascal, France      
        Zhong Shao                Yale University, USA  
        Olin Shivers                Georgia Institute of Technology, USA      
        Phil Trinder                Heriot-Watt University, UK    
        David Walker                Princeton University, USA    



                                 ORGANIZATION    


        Symposium Chair:                Henrik Nilsson, University of Nottingham, UK    
        Programme Chair:                Marco T. Morazan, Seton Hall University, USA    
        Treasurer:                        Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University, UK    
        Local Arrangements:        Marco T. Morazan, Seton Hall University, USA    



                                        SPONSORS    


        The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Seton Hall University    

        The Department of Computer Science, The City College of New York    

        The Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software of The City College of New York      

        The Grove School of Engineering of The City College of New York


We are actively looking for additional TFP sponsors, who may, for example, help to    
subsidise attendance by research students. If you or your organisation might be    
willing to sponsor TFP, or if you know someone who might be willing to do so, please  
do not hesitate to contact the Program Chair, Marco T. Morazan, or the Symposium Chair,      
Henrik Nilsson. Your students will be grateful!    


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Dr. Marco T. Morazan
TFP 2007
Program Committee Chair
http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/